Santa Cesarea, Salentine Peninsula, Apulia: Late/Upper Campanian - Maastrichtian, Italy
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
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Meandrina sp.
Lamarck 1801
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= Scleractinia indet.
Bourne 1900
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Acteonidae
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Acteonidae indet.
d'Orbigny 1835
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Trochactaeon sp.
Meek 1863
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Nerineidae
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Nerineidae indet.
Zittel 1873
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Bivalvia
- Hippuritida
- Plagioptychidae
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Mitrocaprina bulgarica
Tzankov 1965
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Bivalvia
- Hippuritida
- Radiolitidae
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Joufia reticulata
Boehm 1897
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Petkovicia verajana
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Lapeirousia sp.
Bayle 1878
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Radiolitella maestrichtiana
Pejovic 1968
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Apulites cf. giganteus
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Radiolites angeiodes
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Bournonia excavata
d'Orbigny 1847
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Bivalvia
- Hippuritida
- Hippuritidae
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Vaccinites ultimus
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Hippurites colliciatus
Woodward 1855
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Bivalvia
- Hippuritida
- Caprinidae
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Sabinia cf. aniensis
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Echinoidea
- Echinoida
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Echinoida indet.
Troschel 1872
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Geography
| Country: | Italy |
| Coordinates: | 40.0° North, 18.4° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 25.8° North, 17.2° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Campanian - Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified wackestone |
| Secondary lithology: | lithified lime mudstone |
| Lithology description: microbioclastic mudstone-wackestone to local rudstone | |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
| Geology comments: biostrome near the platform-edge | |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Reef 3108 | ||
| Database number: | 67085 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel, W. Kiessling |
| Modifier: | U. Merkel | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-11-07 05:01:59 | Last modified: | 2006-11-07 07:26:34 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-11-07 05:01:59 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 19121. | R. Cestari and G. Sirna. 1987. Rudist fauna in the Maastrichtian deposits of southern Salento (southern Italy). Memorie della Societa Geologica Italiana 40:133-147 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |
Secondary references:
| 26431 | W. Kiessling. 2008. New opinions on coral taxonomy. [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling] |